Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Top 30+ current affairs General knowledge from December 2014.

1) Who was appointed as the new CBI Director on 2 December 2014?
Ans. Anil Kumar Sinha

2) 26th World AIDS Day was observed across the world on 1 December 2014 with the theme?
Ans. Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-free generation

3) Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi was on 5 December 2014 named as the Asian of the Year 2014 by The Straits Times. 'The Straits Times' is the leading newspaper in which country?
Ans. Singapore

4) Mahaparinirwan Diwas was observed across India on 6 December 2014 on the death anniversary of?
Ans. Dr B R Ambedkar

5) Who became the first Indian Footballer to be conferred with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Hall of Fame Award on 30 November 2014?
Ans. Baichung Bhutia

6) Which film won the Golden Peacock Award at the 45th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which concluded in Goa recently?
Ans. Leviathan, Russian Film

7) Name the mascot for the 2016 European football championship announced recently?
Ans. Super Victor

8) As decided recently, the birthday of the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the 25 December will be observed as?
Ans. National Good Governance Day

9) United Nations General Assembly on 5 December 2014 declared which year as the International Year of Soils?
Ans. 2015

10) Who was nominated as the next defence secretary of US Department of Defence by the President Barack Obama on 5 December 2014?
Ans. Ashton Carter
Note: He will replace Chuck Hagel as US Defence Secretary, who resigned in November 2014.

12) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 29 November 2014 flagged off first passenger train to which north-eastern state?
Ans. Meghalaya
Note: The move has put Meghalaya on India's railway
map for the first time.

13) Which country on 30 November 2014 launched National Day song in Tamil language to celebrate 50 years of its independence in 2015?
Ans. Singapore
Note: Tamil is the fourth official language of Singapore.

14) Who became the oldest player to score a century in the One-Day International (ODI) on 30 November 2014?
Ans. Khurram Khan, United Arab Emirates (UAE) captain
Note: He scored the century against Afghanistan in Dubai. He achieved the feat at an age of 43 years and 162 days thus breaking the record held in the name of Sanath Jayasuriya of Sri Lanka.

15) Which country launched the new generation navigation satellite GLONASS-K on 30 November 2014?
Ans. Russia

26) State Government of Gujarat on 5 December 2014 declared 353 villages of which district as completely or partially scarcity-affected?
Ans. Kutch

27) Who won the 2014 US Player of the Year award on 5 December 2014?
Ans. US football team goalkeeper Tim Howard

28) Who was appointed as the Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on 1
December 2014?
Ans. OP Singh

29) Credit Rating Agency ICRA Limited on 5 December 2014 appointed whom as non-executive Chairman after he was elected unilaterally by the ICRA Board?
Ans. Arun Duggal

30) First World Soil Day was observed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on? Ans. 5 December 2014

31) Egypt court on 29 November 2014 dropped charges against its former President?
Ans. Hosni Mubarak

32) The book "2014: The Election That Changed India" that was released on 1 November 2014 was penned by?
Ans. Rajdeep Sardesai

33) India recently joined the elite group of countries to build the largest telescope in the world at?
Ans. Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

34) International Day for the Abolition of Slavery was observed by the United Nations on?
Ans. December 2

35) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 30 November 2014 coined the acronym SMART for police forces across the country in the 49th annual conference of India DGPs and IGPs. What does SMART stands for?
Ans. S for strict but sensitive, M for modern and mobile,
A for alert and accountable, R for reliable and
responsive, T for techno-savvy and trained